A little something for Ian

[Alfashark]

My last RC slope soarer came from this crowd here, and I finally got around to checking their website...
Ian, this thing has your name all over it!

Electric powered of course, so you wont annoy too many people $275US for the complete model with 8 servos, retracts, motor and ESC with battery - another $500NZ for a halfway decent 2.4ghz transmitter and receiver and you'd be away laughing!

[markll]

QUOTE (Alfashark @ Jul 21 2010, 08:08 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

My last RC slope soarer came from this crowd here, and I finally got around to checking their website...
Ian, this thing has your name all over it!

Electric powered of course, so you wont annoy too many people $275US for the complete model with 8 servos, retracts, motor and ESC with battery - another $500NZ for a halfway decent 2.4ghz transmitter and receiver and you'd be away laughing!

Yeah that is cool...for a small RC plane! Me, I want one of these:

http://www.clarkindustries.on.ca/spitfire.html

[Alfashark]

Very nice, but it's too big to really have fun with... 10' span would be a prick to transport as well.
Just to be practical, I've limited myself to 6' spans now. My Sea Vixen was a shade under 9' so had to borrow a mates van a lot

I'm digging the electric models quite a lot - the motor tech has advanced a lot, and so have the batteries. Oneof the local RC lads gets near enough to 30min of high throttle aero's out of one of his models... Enough noise to know where it is, but without the mess and drama that goes with glowplug engines.

[Splitpin]

Thats a great sight Alpha.....and i see theres an L-39 There for Naki as well.......do you have any pics of your flights?

Cheers

Marty

[Ian Warren]

Cripes .. Keep address says Ian , Electric , NICE , clean fuel ... Bases to fly from ... .. my bro's paddock our West Melton , need to make a landing ground field .... Rick , think better make it look like a Carrier ....

[Alfashark]

No, no pics of any flights... Back when in the days of my Beaver and Sea Vixen, digital cameras were expensive as all hell and I had a life
Taking pics of things I got up to wasn't a priority at the time.
Currently I have nothing flying, I've been gathering and rebuilding over the last 6-7yrs. Just have to get a new 2.4Ghz set and I'll have the Fox and F-86 ripping up a nearby slope.
Can't remember if I've posted pics of my herd/flock/pile of junk, so here goes.

~30yr old glider I picked up and flew twice before stripping the wings for re-covering, fuse is 'glass/balsa/'glass sandwich. Weighs in at a shade over 6kg and hauls arse in high winds on a slope.


Cox Lazy Bee, bought it for a laugh and flew it with the .049 Baby Bee engine until it seized, whipped it out and made a plug for the gaping hole in the cowling to take it slope soaring (surprise surprise)


D.H Beaver, this is what happens when you're happily flying all day long until someone else rocks up to the field and turns on their transmitter without checking that anyone else is on the same freq. Being built up slowly to static model standard.



Fuse of the F-86, a quick session with some sandpaper to give it the right curves, fiberglass tape down both sides of the fuse and a strip along the wings, bury the radio in the center section and seal with plumbers silicone, then wrap the whole thing in silver builders paper = almost indestructible slope soaring combat model. Good for 60kts and taking out those pesky flying wings

The Sea Venom got a major case of flutter and broke up in mid air, I did collect most of it from the paddock at the time... Anything usable got put in the parts bin, the rest was mixed with firewood and sent to the big hangar in the sky.

[Ian Warren]

Steve , I gotta ask .. the Vixen , Electric or fueled ducted fan , i am so close to pushing the buy button .. .. i do wonder if a small mod would fix that with compromise the wing structure .

[Ian Warren]

Best i return to the local .. or advanced Model shop , on the way back thru .. maybe Katmandu .. for a good winter jacket

[Naki]

Good collection ther Alfa....electric models have come a long way! If I get back into RC it wil be electric I think. Have a 1/5th scale Cub kit waiting to be built ...propbably will put an electric motor in this.